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31 The days are coming soon when I will eliminate both your children[a] and the children of your father’s household. There won’t be an old person left in your family tree. 32 You’ll see trouble in my dwelling place, though all will go well for Israel.[b] But there will never be an old person in your family tree. 33 One of your descendants whom I don’t eliminate from serving at my altar will cry his[c] eyes out and be full of grief. Any descendants in your household will die by the sword.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:31 LXX; MT arm or power
  2. 1 Samuel 2:32 Heb uncertain; LXX and DSS (4QSama) omit 2:31b-32a.
  3. 1 Samuel 2:33 DSS (4QSama), LXX; MT your
  4. 1 Samuel 2:33 LXX, DSS (4QSama); MT die by men or die as men

31 The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age,(A) 32 and you will see distress(B) in my dwelling. Although good will be done to Israel, no one in your family line will ever reach old age.(C) 33 Every one of you that I do not cut off from serving at my altar I will spare only to destroy your sight and sap your strength, and all your descendants(D) will die in the prime of life.

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